lyx

Accepted -- will evaluate buildability, etc.

Does not build due to a dpkg-dev dependency. Marking as rejected in dapper-backports until the situation changes.

   -> Trying libaspell-dev
 -> Considering dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19)
      Tried versions: 1.13.11ubuntu6 1.13.11ubuntu5
   -> Does not satisfy version, not trying
E: Could not satisfy build-dependency.

Is the dpkg-dev versioned dependency necessary?

The Debian unstable version imposes this dependency. I compiled proper Debian packages on Dapper using the lyx developers Debian script without issue so I suspect the dependency is too strict but hey I am not privy to the Debian lyx maintainers logic. I can lodge a complaint on the Debian maintainers mail list if you wish, they seem to like Ubuntu ;-)

Could you please consider adding lyx-gtk version which integrates into Gnome desktop much better? I have successfully installed an aliened version:

lyx-gtk 1.4.1-2
lyx-common 1.4.1-1.lyx.org.1
(also installed lyx-qt 1.4.1-1.lyx.org.1, lyx-xforms 1.4.0-1.lyx.org.1 + libaiksaurus from Ubuntu)

which needs also some libraries not available in Ubuntu repositories:

libglademm 2.5.1-3
libglibmm 2.4-1_2.6.1-3.1
libgtkmm 2.4-1_2.6.4-1.1

The only bug encountered in lyx-gtk is lack of support for displaying iso8859-2 encoded characters (displayed as latin1) - but the qt version does this correctly and dvi generated from gtk version is ok too. Manually setting language and font/encoding in .lyx/preferences doesn't help. (setting in Document and Tools menus didn't help of course)

\screen_zoom 120
\screen_font_roman "Times New Roman"
\screen_font_sans "Arial"
\screen_font_typewriter "Courier"
\screen_font_encoding "iso8859-2"
\use_input_encoding true
\default_language czech

Rejecting Ubuntu task.

There is versioned Build-Dependency to dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19) due Debian binNMU-safe. See more details:

http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00223.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00228.html